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Just curious, for the salary section, could someone explain why the salary for frontend role is lower the full stack role which is then lower than the backend role?

I personally really like doing front end (Vue/React etc) work but when I saw this salary gap, I feel like that I need to reconsider my career path.

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This is likely because more front end developers are younger/less experienced. While more expensive/older developers prefer backend work and are compensated more highly because of their experience.

Is there any reason older/more senior developer prefers backend than full stack or front end?

My gueses:

* Frontend engineering is a newer discipline than backend engineering.

* Frontend engineering is the first thing you run into as a kid. You interact with technology through the web browser. I learned HTML 4 when I was 11 because I wanted to make web pages. It wasn't until much later that I moved to backend engineering. It's just not as visible.

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